I am confident that Percy has nothing but goodwill following him for sure, within litigation if you have goodwill, the work will surely follow. I think someone has mentioned that his juniors will follow him to the end of the earth, but I am sure there will be clients that will follow as well!
Best of Luck Percy. Happy Arguing.

For someone who spends his/her day proofreading documents to earn a living, yeah, probably.

If you have stepped into court in the last several months , you would know that this is what he was wanting to do for a long time.

Percy is a star. He always has been one. CAM has had a zillion exits from its inception. When CAM struggles to justify its exits, and is unable to pay its hires, it gets people to post inaccurate stories about those who have exited to save face. So its not very clear if its the alleged poor performance of its hires.....or the actual and factually correct poor leadership who has absolutely no idea or direction other than misplaced pomp and show.

The Shiny Maybach would indicate otherwise.

You can't call it non performance when you yourself don't let someone perform despite knowing that he has the ability to perform. This is called setting up a person up for failure. People like Percy don't get left. They leave. They are stars that shine on their own accord and in their own terms. All the litigation force on one side do not have the class and type of clients that Percy has.

Boss, he is quite the star. Why do lawyers working in CAM worship their firm so much? Aisa kya milta hai tum logon ko?

P&L not Balance sheet :P

The men can dream. Especially one of them who has been harbouring this dream since the day he joined.

Has to be Akila. Like Duh

Cyril needs to be very careful in choosing who heads Delhi. It has to be someone with face value. That's just half if it. He needs to vest some level of power and decision making authority in this person. Delhi has some very committed and hard-working lawyers and a bad leader will simply undo the good work that Percy did during his time there. Hoping for the best and wishing Percy all the very best in his new venture. He will surely shine.

Yes. That’s why CAM unit value is two times SAM unit value. Go back to your trainee pool and figure.

CAM has half of India's competition lawyers and 10% of the work.

The litigation team needs a big name leader if they wish to remain pertinent in Delhi. There are some good small players but no big leader. No big name. Percy going will leave that void. Let's hope that the management brings a heavy hitter like him.

Please count Bangalore office also. It USED to be good. Now it is just full of mediocre partners, specially the junior partners. The recent exits from the Bangalore office is a proof of that. Faltu ego, artificial deadlines and mistreatment of associates are the reasons.

When were the days of glory?

Amazing powers of deduction. Now can you also tell us why Trump is the way he is?

What is the CAM culture? Pray do shed some light on this culture which from the sounds of it seems like a cult..ure!

Whoever has written this – it is clear that its someone in the CAM senior Partnership and I am posting this because it makes me very angry. I have no idea about politics except what I hear second hand. But I can tell you one thing – Mr. Billimoria was always dignified and never had a bad word for anyone. This is a leader one respects, so what notion of leadership you have no one knows since [...] only likes whoever praises [...] and speaks ill of others. Everyone in office knows this. And there was one recent incident which I witnessed when Mr. Billimoria was visibly upset when he was told that his request to hire the younger brother of the court clerk was rejected. He was red in the face yet said nothing. Even a 10th pass knows that if you have a leader of the office without authority he is going to either learn to suck it up or else up and leave. When you call someone a head and then even his simple requests to hire a young deserving lawyer as a trainee is not granted then even I wondered what ability he has to help us associates with our problems. This is why it makes me very angry and I don’t care if I am identified and fired for this. Grow up you senior management. And instead of asking us for our time sheets why don’t you first get busy with work instead of reading comments on LI and responding to them.

He led the CAM office out of the dark ages and you talk about performance? Are you saying that the CAM office did not do well? Or it did well irrespective of Percy being there? Because in that case, it is on auto pilot and you don’t need a leader do you? Or maybe Wendy the Witch just waved her magic wand and poof the collections materialised. Or wait … it was Gauri who waved HER magic wand … !

He takes responsibility for the success and stability of CAM Delhi. And the proof of pudding is......wait and see what happens once he is gone.

If only Percy was going to a law firm, you would know the answer. CAM Delhi would be empty except for the incompetent. A leader is someone who inspires and gets things done not someone who only survives because of chamchagiri.

It is 'deprecating', not 'depreciating'.

Correct - unlike others whose sense of humour was self apprecating - or is it self appreciating?

Bus kar pagle rualyega kya ab.

The Turk does protest too much. Bemused with the length and language of most of the comments. Suspicious much.

This is too funny. I have been in the Delhi office since it's inception, but justice parity? No doubt Percy is a good man, but he is not an administrator - that work has been managed by Gauri throughout. Percy was supposed to the figurehead and rainmaker and I think to that extent, the role had run it's course. It would have been good to have him continue ashe is a good person and a good lawyer, but I would think no big harm done either with him leaving also. Well, other than a losing pr battle in LI comments, which I guess is now a thing.

The first part is called industriousness and the second is called humanity. There your bubble is busted.

1. Folks like Percy dont practice law to reach a revenue target or to show that they have billed for 16 hours, they work (esp after 20 years, just like PS, CS , ZM) because they love the practice of law whether in a firm or outside. There is nothing wrong in working hard and ensuring quality and complete preparedness on a matter, it is one's choice and not stupidity. That's their fuel not the cash in the bank account. Juniors get motivated by seniors who work hard. Please note practice of law is not a means to an end. If you see it that way (Again a personal choice) I doubt you will know ever the feel what passion is.

2. To your point on helping out the brother of a court clerk, I am sure he wasnt promising equity in the firm also would like to know what kickback he got out of helping a court clerk. It's his benevolence as managing partner of a firm which i understand was not allowed by the top management. The firm is filled with kids of influential client and bureaucrats (and we all know the kickbacks a Firm gets) and I assure my friend almost all the MNCs of the world have similar practice.

I think you live in a bubble. Familiarise yourself with economic hitmans and please read world history.

Very much. Heard her team has put in their papers at SAM.

I have seen Percy in action. He is an absolute perfectionist. He likes to get deep into facts and law and us one of the few lawyers who actually likes track of time when he is lawyering. He makes you think beyond the obvious. As for bieng a bad manager, that was never his role. That role has always been reserved for someone else.

Percy was head of Delhi to give a credible name to the Delhi office. On hindsight, he should have stayed at AZB where he was king and had his own runway to take flight. An unnecessary landing in the desert. Good that he is taking off again. Will surely soar new hieghts. Meanwhile CAM will have to ensure that the good people stay. Lot of pressure on Akila to not only perform but also help lead Delhi with ???